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Thought it might be interesting to take a quick survey to see who is running what on their main rig at home. I'm not looking for the SuperCluster you get to play with at work or school, just your main home computer. I know a lot of us have more than one rig, plus maybe a laptop, so vote for the best thing you're rocking on a regular basis.

Since polls are limited to ten choices and there are scads of CPUs out there, pick the range which best fits.

PS: The poll is public, so we'll see who voted for what. (Just so you know.)

I'm running a i5-2500K and have the same feelings as ignatzatsonic. So, hyperthreading is the difference between mid range and high end? Off to Newegg to go shopping. NOT!

No!

There is a lot of gray area here. Someone like me who is running a Socket 1366 Core i7-920 at just slightly above stock would probably lose a benchmark battle to a massively overclocked 2600K running a full GHz faster.

I had to draw the line somewhere, given the ten choice limit and the fact that the poll would be unusable if we were allowed as many choices as we would need to cover everything. The High-Mid-Low was just for the sake of convenience in guiding people to the ballpark location since I couldn't list too many details.

The last two covered the extremes, those being the lucky few who actually run a Quad-CPU/Quad-Core XEON setup at home, along with the unfortunate souls still getting their money's worth out of the 386SX rig they paid $1,399 for in 1991 - assuming they sprung the extra 400 bucks for the 40MB HD. (InfoWorld)

Prof, don't take offense, it was just a little joke. Although, when I built it I thought it was better than mid range. But, an i7 is a better CPU than an i5 in that it is capable of doing more. At any rate, just having a little fun. Happy new year to everyone.

Poll: What CPU Are You Running?

SSD Poll - Vote Now!Cast your vote!
Inspired by this thread:
https://www.sevenforums.com/news/214653-ssds-have-bleak-future-researchers-say.html
The purpose is to:
A) Gauge the satisfaction (or lack thereof) of current or past users of an SSD.
B) Gauge the interest level among those who do not have one

The big HDD poll!I just want to see what everyone is using and prefers.
Personally I use western digital and seagate both. I have actually never had a seagate fail on me but I have had a western digital fail once just tonight so I rely on both as they are both pretty good brands.
Brands I would avoid though...